Computing Experience

• Professional
  • Systems Engineering and DevOps:
    1. Managed over a thousand EC2 instances in AWS
    2. Extensive Automation using Chef and Jenkins for setup, maintenance, monitoring and backups
    3. Successful full blue-green code deployments
    4. Migration and Support to Continuous Integration style deployments
    5. Peak Concurrent Userbase in the millions
  • IT Server Support
  1. Production Level Hardware requirements gathering
  2. Network configuration and performance troublshooting
  3. Server OS configuration
  4. Management 70 physical servers for an internally developed toolset
  5. Management of dozens of servers worldwide for another internally developed toolset
  6. Supporting of internal userbase in the thousands
  7. Deploying to and maintaining production environments for internally developed tools
  8. Managing restoring, maintenance, archival and cross country replication of Databases
  9. Using ticket systems to prioritize and manage troubleshooting and maintenance of production environments
  • Software Testing:
    1. Creating, Managing and Executing complete product test plans
    2. Performing innovative new tests not in the test plan through creative Ad-Hoc testing
    3. Performing high performance load and stress testing to levels never before seen
    4. Performing extensive boundary testing well beyond the test plan
    5. Experience with automation testing systems
• Further Experience
  • Over 20 years with a peak count of 40 physical machines and countless virtual hosts.
  • Managed through a combination of Linux and Windows Services for Routing, DHCP, DNS and AD.
  • Managing onsite and cloud services including HTTP(s), Mail, IRC with automation and monitoring.
  • Managing file, print, backup and domain services for a typical end user environment.
  • Further Projects and Technologies Explored:
    1. HPC: 9 physical node Beowulf Cluster using openMosix
    2. Virtualization using VMWare and XenServer
    3. LAMP applications developed from scratch
    4. Continuous improvements to a robust backbone of services and frameworks for ever increasing requirements and data loads
    5. Smart Switch Management (Nortel and Trendnet)
    6. Implementation of open source CMS tools for management and coordination of group activities
• School
  • BSc in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University
  • Basics such as Java, software engineering, discrete math and calculus through lower division
  • Major projects completed in Upper Division
    1. Computer Animation from Scratch using OpenGL and C++ in a Team of 4
    2. Complete Webserver, Database and Scripting setup for Role Playing including messaging, character generation and game instancing in a Team of 4
    3. Implementation of atmospheric attenuation in PBRT (Raytracer built for educational purposes) using C++
    4. Software Engineering and Implementation of a handheld interface for an electronic guide for a museum in a Team of 4